We had some really nice weather this weekend, so we took advantage of it by raking some leaves! We don’t have many trees at our new place, which we were sad about but at the same time, I thought it would be nice not to have to rake leaves. Well unfortunately that didn’t happen. One of the houses down our street has a few huge trees out front and all the leaves they lost blew into the surrounding yards, including ours. So I still ended up getting to rake leaves, but it was okay, I’ll take the nice weather if it means I have to do a little work.
Category: Fall
Halloween
Halloween 2013 has come and gone already. The kids had a great time trick-or-treating and enjoying some other activities. Lucas had a school party and a parade, where the kids walked around through all the classrooms. We got to go watch him and I think he was excited to have us at his school. He dressed up as Batman this year, but couldn’t wear a mask at school, so he dressed up as a pirate for school.
Kryssi helped out with his school party, so McKinley got to go for that. She dressed up as a Princess, but then that evening decided she wanted to be a monkey. So both kids got to dress up twice. William had a monkey costume but I’m not sure he ever wore it.
We got quite a few trick-or-treaters coming to our house, which was a new experience for us, as we’ve never had very many come in the past. We actually ran out of candy, but it was okay as it was about 8 at that time and our kids were going to bed, so we didn’t want people ringing our doorbell at that point. But next year I guess we’ll have to buy more and be prepared.
It was quite cold and a little rainy at times but we’ve had worse Halloweens in the past, weather wise.
Carving pumpkins
We carved our pumpkins this past Monday for FHE. The kids were really looking forward to it, though Lucas didn’t want to have to clean out the pumpkin guts. He would touch one seed and then have to go wash his hands. William was already asleep, so he didn’t get to participate, but maybe next year. But they turned out really nice.
Picnic at the park
We’ve had really nice weather this week, highs in the upper 50’s and mid 60’s. I doubt it will last much longer though, so we’ve tried to take advantage of it. So this week we decided to go to the park and have a picnic dinner.
Park City
Buds
Enjoying the hot tub
Cousins (can’t really tell there’s 4 months difference between the two)
Taking a walk between conference sessions
McKinley liked this scarecrow
Minion!
Dinosaur museum
We decided to stop at the Museum of Ancient Life while we were down in Utah over conference weekend. We’ve never been there before but the kids loved it.
My favorite dinosaur was this one (can’t remember the name but the neck was LONG)
Jaws!
Playing in the water/sand pit
McKinley loved burying the dinosuars
Digging for dinosaur bones.
Spud day
Spud day was this last weekend. By far our favorite part is the parade, where the kids get tons of candy. We go over to the park after the parade but there’s always too many people and not enough room to maneuver, especially with 3 kids.
Harvest fest and new tree
A couple weekends ago we went to Harvest Fest, where the kids played on inflatable toys, won some prizes playing games, and we looked around some booths. We also finally planted a tree that we’ve had since we’ve moved in. We were waiting for it to start cooling down somewhat and that’s finally happened.
First day of school 2013
Lucas started kindergarten today! Makes me feel old but I guess that’s okay. He gets to go to a brand new school, which we got to go tour last week, so that’s pretty awesome. He goes in the morning, from 8 until 11 and his teacher (Mrs. Moeller) is in our ward, so he has already met her and she’s really nice. But I think he’ll really enjoy school and he’ll learn a lot. I just hope he can learn to listen to his teacher and not talk all during class (which I’m sure he’ll do fine at but he can definitely talk a mile a minute).
Pumpkins!
Well we carved our pumpkins for FHE this past Monday. I don’t know if they’ll last till Halloween, but we couldn’t wait! We got a pumpkin for each of us from my parents house. They had a pretty good crop of pumpkins this year and Lucas loved picking them from the garden.
I did my own plus Lucas’ and Kryssi did hers and McKinley’s. Kryssi’s first one didn’t work out, part of it broke off, so she had to throw that one away. But the three we were successful with turned out really good, in my opinion. Lucas wasn’t sure about it at first because I told him he could help me get the pumpkin guts out. But once he saw the “guts” were just seeds and other slimey stuff, he helped out and liked it a lot. But he got bored with the actual carving part and didn’t stay around until I light the candles.
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